Chapter 18 Dazed
Vivian's mind was in chaos, and she stumbled down the spiral staircase leading to the basement. The familiar footsteps sounded behind her back. Even if she didn't look back, she could hear that it was Penis's footsteps that were not covered up. Vivian ignored Panis's follow and ran to the second floor of the basement, opening the secret door on the wall leading to the third and fourth floor.
It was still the small space of several square meters. Vivian had just walked in and wanted to close the door. Pannis floated in secret like a ghost, floating quietly behind Vivian as if he had no weight. Vivian glared at Pannis, but Pannis seemed to have not seen it, lying on the wall of the elevator to study, as if the wall was full of exquisite murals. Vivian glared for a while and found that Pannis had made up his mind to follow her. He also felt helpless. He sighed and closed the door of the elevator. In the low mechanical roar, the elevator shook and began to slowly descend.
When the door of the lifter was opened again, he had already reached the exclusive space of Vivian's fourth floor underground. Vivian also gave up his efforts to drive away Panis. When he did not exist, he walked out of the lifter alone, stood in the circular corridor and thought for a while, pushed open a nearby door and walked in.
As soon as you enter the door, you can smell a strong herbal smell, which is mixed with a faint fragrance of florals and a faint fishy smell. Inside the door is a circular space of about 30 square meters. There are eight long tables around the walls of the room. Each long table has a large number of wooden racks, and transparent crystal bottles and crystal cups of various specifications are neatly placed on the shelves. In addition, a small crystal energy stove for heating is placed on the eight tables. They are also equipped with small pools, on the right side of the table.
On the side, each stands a vertical cabinet with a large number of drawers installed. Each drawer contains different materials, but surprisingly, there is no label outside these drawers. There are nearly five hundred drawers in eight vertical cabinets. I don’t know how Vivian distinguishes the materials placed in each drawer. In addition to the eight long tables, there is a load-bearing column in the center of the house, and several strange medium-sized instruments are placed in the middle of the house. The shapes of the instruments are different, and I don’t know what functions they have.
Vivian walked into the laboratory and found that Panis came in very consciously. She couldn't help but glared at him again, but she still didn't say anything. She took a loose robe from the hood rack on the side of the door and put it on her body. She threw it to Panis, who was dazed, and then bit her lips and thought for a while. She put the plaque as an excuse on the low cabinet where the clothes were placed at the door. Without saying a word, she walked to a long table, silently took out a pile of crystal cups and crystal bottles, and began to use water-attribute magic to clean it in front of the pool.
Containers. It is very convenient to use magic to clean containers, especially those who have high magic control capabilities like Vivian, who can shape the magic water formed by elements into the form of a container, and then carefully and quickly clean every corner. After washing, pour out the water in the container. As long as the elemental energy in the container is dissipated, the wet inner wall of the container will be restored to dryness. There is no need to be dried and dried at all. After washing hundreds of small containers, Vivian lowered his head and thought about it for a while, as if he had finally made a decision and started to get busy.
This was the first time that Panis saw Vivian busy in the laboratory. He wrapped his arms around his chest and leaned against the laboratory door. He admired Vivian's skillfully cleaning and operation with rhythmic movements at the long table like dancing.
In fact, Vivian had almost no movement. She was not even standing. There was a special chair with rollers in the laboratory. Vivian was sitting on the chair. The chair was soft and comfortable, just fitting Vivian's figure, so she could sit half-lying on the chair, but there were several belts on it. As soon as Vivian sat on it, he fixed his body with a belt to prevent himself from sliding off the chair.
After doing all this, you can clearly feel that Vivian's body collapsed. If it weren't for the belt being fixed, she would even lower her head, but the fixed belt perfectly solved all problems. Although she gave up control of her body, it did not mean that she was motionless. If she used magic to strengthen her eyes, she could see a large number of magic silk threads that were invisible to the naked eye that were out of Vivian's body, and each silk thread was performing different operations like tentacles.
So, the laboratory started to move busy. Drawers were constantly opened, containers containing different alchemy materials were constantly moving on each long table. The mortar was automatically grinding the hard teeth of the monsters, and the cutter was rotating and cutting the thick croaker roots into small pieces. The crystal energy furnace was heated with refined silver rat oil, and several unknown materials were mixed and poured into half a bottle of clean water. It was placed on a machine in the center of the laboratory. The disc on the machine began to buzz and quickly rotate, causing several bottles on the disc to rotate at high speed. The chair with rollers played its best. Whenever it was necessary to confirm with your eyes, the magic wire would drive the chair to slide to the target position, without any delay in the process.
In this way, Vivian, who was completely unable to rely on his own actions, was actually doing work that could only be carried out by multiple mages, and performed more than ten different operations at the same time. There was no conflict between the operations, just like more than ten different brains. Each operation was absolutely standard without any error.
Panis looked at Vivian's movements, but sighed softly, because he knew that the cost of this ability that was enough to make most mages envy to death was what was hidden behind it. It was a severe headache caused by frequent mental overdrawing, a depression that could not move, speak, and a dividing attention into countless parts at any time to control the body, otherwise it would fall and paralyzed. The most important thing was the fear of death that could come at any time. How many people who envy were willing to pay such a heavy price in exchange for such ability? What's more, this ability was still practiced for more than ten years to stand up again with their own strength.
"Don't be surprised, this is nothing." Hearing Panis' sigh, he misunderstood Panis's meaning. Vivian, who was supposed to lose his ability to speak, spoke. Obviously, these operations in front of her were not enough to spend all her energy: "My limit is to refine fifteen bottles of potions at the same time, which is three times more difficult than these operations now. With what I do now, haha, it is actually not as complicated as the operations I do when I move forward."
Panis smiled behind Vivian and asked softly: "Do you need me any help?"
"You have to follow me just to ask me if I want to help?" Vivian still maintained the operation of alchemy, but his body turned his chair to face Panis, rolled his eyes and said, "No, didn't you follow me to comfort me?"
"But, do you need someone to coax? Do you need someone to comfort me?" Panis asked lazily, holding his arms, "If you really need someone to do these things, you will not be Vivian."
"What do you think Vivian should be like?" Vivian asked, "Unhuman? Indifferent? Numbness? Arrogant? Always live in your own world, and always take other people's care and care for themselves for granted?"
"You think of yourself this way? But I don't think of it." Panis said with a smile: "In my eyes, Vivian is firm, self-reliant, with perseverance and determination that ordinary people do not have, with self-confidence beyond ordinary people and the strength to maintain this confidence. In my heart, Vivian is always the girl who smiles and says I am a genius while achieving corresponding achievements in genius, rather than the fool who is now sensitive and depressed, who always falls into fear and panic, but does not dare to show the fear and pain in his heart to his loved ones."
Vivian did not speak, and continued his previous operations blankly, finishing the dozen or so bottles flying in the air, but did not proceed to the next step, but sighed: "It's not that I dare not, but I don't want you to worry about my affairs. I'm enough to bear these pain and fears alone, and there's no need to let you bear them together."
"Do you still remember? Just over twenty minutes ago, you were still questioning why we didn't tell you about the treatment for you. You were still blaming Catherine for not hiding it from you. You were still asking Catherine to share the pressure with you. That's what family would be considered." Pannis said funnyly: "But how can you just be enough to be able to bear it alone? We hide it from you, you feel sad. You told Catherine to share the pain together as a relative. Have you ever thought about watching you endure the pain but hide it from her and not let her know what Catherine would think? You should know, among you girls, Catherine is the eldest sister, who carries everything for you, but in fact, she is the most sensitive and softest inside. Have you ever thought about her feelings?"
"But this is something I can only face myself." Vivian bit her lip and said, "Even if I tell you this kind of thing, you will not be able to help me relieve my pain now. It can only increase your pressure. Why bother?"
"Indeed, maybe we can't help you relieve your pain and fear for the time being." Panis nodded, "But if you say what you are in your heart, you can at least relieve your stress and depression, and you can relax your spirit. Moreover, you should also think about Catherine. If you say these, you can at least make her feel that you don't treat her as an outsider and have no barriers from her, what do you say?"
"I don't know, I don't know at all." Vivian looked at Pannis blankly and said blankly: "Are you saying that my behavior makes my elder sister very sad?"
Chapter completed!